Wrike - A Great Tool for Collaboration Amongst a Medium Sized Team
December 28, 2015

Wrike - A Great Tool for Collaboration Amongst a Medium Sized Team

Jon Jagelsky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Wrike

We use wrike across the entirety of our marketing department (7 users). We use Wrike as our project management tool to keep track of deadlines and deliverables. It serves as a window to upper management for the projects we are working on and their statuses.

Pros

  • Wrike's dashboard is an integral part of my day. Their dashboard is fully customizable and allows you to see tasks that you have due in the coming days/weeks as well as tasks that you have assigned to other team members and what their status is.
  • The chat and comment features in Wrike have allowed our team to move away from email as our main form of communication. Gone are the days of a cluttered inbox.
  • The file versioning feature is really useful when dealing with edits and multiple copies of the same document. Before Wrike we would often be working on multiple versions of the same document and combining edits and comments was always a pain.

Cons

  • The subtasks could still use some improvement in wrike. Specifically how the due-dates of subtasks relate to the parent task. Conceptually it doesn't make sense that a sub task could have a due date that is past the due date of the parent task.
  • We have seen an increase in employee efficiency by using Wrike. All team members are now accountable for their own project planning and tracking within Wrike. Gone are the days of missed deadlines and forgotten tasks.
We find Wrike to be a much more collaborative tool than Microsoft Project. When we used Microsoft Project we had to designate one super user to manage the input and creation of projects and tasks. Also not all team members were able to access Microsof Project. With Wrike all team members are now responsible for inputting and managing their own tasks. Wrike is a much more intuitive tool than Microsoft Project and the organizational structure makes it easy to group projects and deadlines.
Wrike is well suited for teams that require a lot of collaboration. For our marketing team a single project will often touch all 7 team members so Wrike is a great place for collaborating and general project management. Since it's an online tool, Wrike is always accessible for us. We previously utilized Microsoft Project which was not working for our team since some users had Macs and the software wasn't compatible.

Wrike Feature Ratings

Task Management
10
Resource Management
8
Gantt Charts
8
Scheduling
10
Workflow Automation
Not Rated
Team Collaboration
10
Support for Agile Methodology
9
Support for Waterfall Methodology
Not Rated
Document Management
8
Email integration
10
Mobile Access
Not Rated
Timesheet Tracking
Not Rated
Budget and Expense Management
Not Rated
Project & financial reporting
Not Rated
Integration with accounting software
Not Rated

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